feller

noun, slang for fellow (COD)

“Them old freighters I was on were two hundred and fifty feet. They carried about a hundred thousand bushels of wheat or so. But when the Seaway went through, the new big ships. Inside of five years all the little fellers are gone.”

“Across The Island you got a Dutch family. And I don’t know how many they got, a big dairy. I don’t know, 700, a hundred, something. And then there’s a couple other Dutch fellers there.”